Robots

RoCoCo laboratory has several types of robotic platforms, that are used both for research project and as support to the courses of the Master in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, offered at DIAG. Among the platforms available Aldebaran NAO humanoid robots (formerly Sony AIBO), wheeled mobile robots (Pioneer, Videre Erratic, TurtleBot, Segway), a mobile manipulator Kuka YouBot, and small UAVs from Ascending Technologies. In addition, several sensors are available both for mobile and fixed installations, including stereo cameras, depth sensors laser scanners, IMU, thermal cameras.

Software

At RoCoCo laboratory several software tools have been developed, including:

Main Research Topics

Application domains

Robotic soccer

Service robots in the home

Surveillance with fixed and mobile sensors

Search and rescue robotics.

People

RoCoCo Laboratory currently hosts 5 faculties (Daniele Nardi, Luca Iocchi, Giorgio Grisetti, Domenico Daniele Bloisi, and Alberto Pretto), 10 PhD Students, and several master students. The group has a solid tradition of cooperation with other research groups worldwide, and is very interested in establishing new collaborations and hosting foreign researchers.

The Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering “Antonio Ruberti” (DIAG) at Sapienza University of Rome participates as exhibitor, within the European Horizon 2020 project FLOURISH, at Roma Drone Expo&Show 2015.